Training the Horizontal Jumper
By Jim Van Hootengem
It is encouraged for the coach and athlete to begin with a video review session. The coach should prepare video clips featuring performances of a variety of elite athletes. The coach should help the athlete identify commonalities between elite performers within events and between performers in different events. Discussions should feature mechanics of the %%%approach run%%%, %%%penultimate step%%%, takeoff, flight and landing. The coach athlete should be disciplined to look for common features versus stylistic differences.
- Displacement Characteristics in the Long Jump
- Pre-Jump
- Improving the Penultimate Step in the Jumping Events